Judge Kiley found a second alleged accomplice to the murders, Jeff Boyd, innocent of all charges.

Both men were charged originally with three counts of murder for allegedly helping James Walker, a street gang ``general,`` shoot and kill three people who were standing on the corner of 54th Place and Halsted Street on April 30, 1985.

A jury on Tuesday found Walker guilty of the three murders and prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for him.

Pollard`s trial centered on his signed confession, which said that he went to help Walker and two other gang members ``kill some chump.``

According to the evidence, Pollard drove the getaway ``switch`` car to a spot near the shootings and waited, according to Assistant State`s Attorneys Randy Rueckert and David Sabatini. As he waited, two men and a woman were shot and killed.

There was no evidence presented that Pollard could have known that two bystanders would die along with the intended victim.

Walker, 30, of 7443 S. Kingston Ave., and his companions fled the murder scene in one car and drove to where Pollard was waiting, the prosecutors said. They abandoned the first car and sped off together in Pollard`s car, the prosecutors said.

They had charged that one of the other two men with Walker was Boyd, 35, of 6410 S. Minerva Ave., who allegedly fired shots from inside the car.

Although three witnesses identified Walker in court, only one of the three said he saw Boyd.

Judge Kiley ruled that the one witness`s testimony wasn`t enough to convict Boyd. He said that man viewed the scene under ``probably the worst possible circumstances . . . extreme fear, gunshots, chaos, people running, people being shot.``

The judge said he also was disturbed because the witness initially told police that only one man, Walker, did the shooting. The witness later changed his story.

The other two witnesses said they saw only Walker firing the shots and ballistics tests indicated that only one gun was fired.

Prosecutors contended that Walker went there to kill 25-year-old Rico Chalmers, who was shot three times and killed. Two bystanders, 22-year-old Vickie Nolden and 24-year-old Glendon McKinley, also died in the gunfire.

Pollard was convicted in Chalmers` murder. Walker and Pollard are scheduled to be sentenced March 11.